Adoption, sentence 9

Now she's nine and asks, «What was my birth mum like?» They don't know everything, but they show her a letter her birth mum wrote when Isla was a baby.

Who acts: Isla, mum, birth mum · What happens: be, ask, not know, show, write · To what, where: nine, birth mum, everything, letter, Isla, baby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isla, mum, birth mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 nine	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nine	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nine	cop
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 asks	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 asks	cc
6	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 mum	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 mum	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mum	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
12	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mum	compound
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	13 mum	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 mum	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
17	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asks	conj
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 know	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 show	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 show	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 show	nsubj
25	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 know	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 show	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 letter	det
28	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 show	obj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mum	nmod:poss
30	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mum	compound
31	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wrote	nsubj
32	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 letter	acl:relcl
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 baby	advmod
34	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 baby	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 baby	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 baby	det
37	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wrote	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nine	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Isla	nine		now	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past		my birth mum			tree rules
4	not know	present · do-support	mum	everything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	show	present	mum	a letter	Isla		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Topic
6	write	past	Isla's birth mum	a letter not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
7	is a	past	Isla	a baby			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:9.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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